US463402A

US463402A - Signal lamp or lantern

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Publication number: US463402A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-11-17
Anticipated expiration: 1908-11-17

Description

(No Model.)

L. G. HUNTINGTON & R. J. ARMOUR.

SIGNAL LAMP OR LANTERN.

No. 463,402. Patented Nov. 17, 1891.

1M BY OVVWMF Q. Ma.

ATTORNEY INVENTURS UNITED STATES LAIVSON G. HUNTINGTON, OF NEW OF NEWARK,

PATENT OFFICE.

YORK, N. Y., AND ROBERT J. ARMOUR,

NEW- JERSEY.

SIGNAL LAMP OR LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,402, dated November 17, 1891.

Application filed February 20, 1891. Serial No. 382,262, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LAWSON G. HUNTING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, and ROBERT J. ARMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Signal Lamps or Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates especially to, the construction and arrangement of that class of lamps or lanterns wherein the body is provided with lenses and means for changing the color of the light displayed, and has for its object the provision of a removable perforated plate, oil-pot, and frame which holds the various-colored glasses while in use and when not in use.

To attain the desired end our invention consists, essentially, in a lamp-body bearing lenses and wherein is located a removable frame provided with pockets for the glasses and a receptacle for the spare glasses, a removable perforated plate beneath said frame, and a removable oil-pot seated in said plate; and our invention involves certain other novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts and peculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view of a lamp, showing the various parts in position. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the glass-supporting frame, perforated plate, and oil-pot removed from the lamp-body, on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference wherever they occur indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is the lamp-body, bearinglenses -B.

O is a hinged or removable top to the lampbody, and D is the carrying-bail.

E is the perforated plate, provided with a central opening which is surrounded bya cup or ring F.

G is a ring which rests upon or is secured to the perforated plate E, and H is a similar ring supported by the metal of the receptacles I for the glasses J, arranged to hold said glasses between the lenses and the light ofthe lamp, and by the pocket K, which receiv'es the spare glasses. The removable oilpot L finds a seat in the center of the perforated plate, and the ratchet-shaft P of the burner R passes through an openingbetween two of the glass-receptacles and is supported by a notch-ed plate S.

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoing description, the advantages of our invention are manifold. The frame, glasses, perforated plate, and oilpot mayall be removed from the lamp-body for the purpose of cleaning, and the perforated plate can be readily cleaned'upon both sides.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with a lamp-bodybear ing lenses, of a separable frame locatedwithin the lamp-body and provided with recepta cles for different-colored glasses, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a lamp of the character herein specified, a separable frame located within the lamp-body and provided with receptacles for holding glasses between the lenses and the light, and a receptacle for spare glasses, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the removable perforated. plate having an opening in its center for the reception of the oil-pot, of a removable frame provided with supports for glasses, substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination, with the body bearing lenses, of aseparable frame located within the go lamp-body and provided with receptacles for glasses, and a perforated plate by which said frame is'supported, said plate being in turn supported by a ring or cup which forms the seat for the oilp0t, substantially as shown and arranged substantialiy as shown and dcand described. scribed. V

5. A signal-lamp, in which is comprised an 7 LAYVSON G. HUN TlNGTON. open-topped body bearing lenses at its sides, ROBERT J. ARMOUR.

5 a separable glass-supporting frame and perforated plate located Within the body of the \Vitnesses: lamp, and a separable oil-pot also located A. M. PIERCE, Within the lamp-body, the Whole combined EDWARD O; ROWLAND.